a. Obs. rare. [f. TOY sb. + -OUS.] a. Tritling, ornamental, unessential. b. Inclined to toy or flirt, coquettish. Hence Toyousness.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxxviii. (1887), 178. Those ouerraught qualities for the toyousnesse therof being misplaced in her, do cause the young woman rather to be toyed withall … then to be thought verie well of.
1592. Warner, Alb. Eng., VII. xxxvi. 157. The faire sweet wittie wench grew toyous in the end.
